The day in photos

Teodocio Perez, 71, covered with a thin layer of wet sand, looks out at the Pacific Ocean during his morning exercises on the Playa de Pescadores shore in Lima, Peru. Chilean authorities discovered surprisingly light damage Wednesday from a magnitude-8.2 quake that struck in the Pacific Ocean Tuesday evening.

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Firefighters try to extinguish a fire on a restaurant by the sea shore after a powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit off Chile’s Pacific coast. A tsunami warning has been issued for Chile, Peru and Ecuador.

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Dolls and a miniature pram belonging to Queen Elizabeth II are displayed at Buckingham Palace ahead of the Royal Childhood exhibition in London. Spanning more than 250 years, the exhibition brings together objects from the Royal Collection, the Royal Archives and the private collections of members of the Royal Family, as well as previously unseen photographs and film footage.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) leaves a press conference outside the U.S. Wednesday. During the press conference, Democratic senators urged passage of legislation that would raise the minimum wage and establish ‘paycheck fairness’ in wages paid to women.

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Joan Stallard talks about the issue of the Supreme Court striking down the limit one can donate to political as Scott Dorn looks on in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court struck down the limits on how much one person can donate overall to political campaigns. The limit to individual candidates is still $2,600 per candidate.

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Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry stands with his prosthetic hand over his heart and wears his Medal of Honor during the Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Petry lost his hand in 2008 when an enemy grenade he was throwing away from fellow soldiers detonated while in combat in Afghanistan.

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The buds on cherry blossom trees frame the Jefferson Memorial across the Tidal Basin in Washington, seen against the early morning sky. The annual Cherry Blossom festival ends April 13, 2014.

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University students run and shout slogans as they march towards the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon. The protest was against cuts in the public education system. The white banner on the right with the faces of the Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho and the Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva reads in Portuguese: “Out”.

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Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is reflected in a mirror as he arrives for an interview in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Yanukovych says the annexation of Crimea was a tragedy and he would have done everything possible to prevent it, had he remained in power.

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Shadows of flag-waving supporters are cast on flower petals that they threw earlier as India’s ruling Congress party president Sonia Gandhi arrives to file her nomination papers for the upcoming general elections, in Rae Bareli, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India. India will hold national elections from April 7 to May 12, kicking off a vote that many observers see as the most important election in more than 30 years in the world’s largest democracy.

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Firefighters salute as the casket of Boston Fire Department Lieutenant Edward Walsh is loaded onto a fire truck outside Saint Patrick’s Church following his funeral in Watertown, Massachusetts. Thousands of firefighters from across the US lined the streets to honor Walsh, one of two firefighters who died battling a blaze in a Boston apartment building last week.

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A general view of the installation “Stools” by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei pictured during a media preview of the “Evidence” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin.

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Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

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A supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah attends the final day of election campaigning outside Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Women walk on a road blocked by independent miners in the La Cumbre mountain pass near La Paz, Bolivia. Thousands of independent miners are blocking the main routes along Bolivia to reject a new mining law by President Evo Morales’ government, which they say prevents them from associating with private mining firms of their choice.

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A protester reads a book and another uses her smartphone as they wait in front of a police barricade on a road leading to the Supreme Electoral Board in Ankara, Turkey. Riot police set up barricades as Turks continued to protest, demanding a partial recount in national polls that saw Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party sweep the electoral map.

First Lady Michelle Obama and local schoolchildren plant the sixth annual White House Kitchen Garden. Obama planted a vegetable garden on the South Lawn to initiate a national conversation around the health and wellbeing of the nation.

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A 51-foot peanut butter and jelly sandwich is cut up for eating on National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day in Escondido, California.

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Students from Heritage K-8 Charter School enjoy glasses of milk after eating parts of a 51-foot peanut butter and jelly sandwich on National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day in Escondido, California.

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People pray and light candles before a portrait of Polish-born Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland to mark nine years since the death of the much-loved pontiff. John Paul II will be made a saint in a Vatican ceremony on April 27.

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A model wears a creation from the Ronaldo Fraga Summer collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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A tattered flag, found in the debris of a deadly mudslide, is flown at a staging area for emergency workers on Highway 530 near the debris field in Oso, Wash. Officials have so far confirmed the deaths of 29 people, although only 22 have been officially identified.

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A polar bear is pictured during the opening day of the new polar area at the zoo of Mulhouse in Alsace, France.